Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Alexander

We started out a little rough, but we stepped it up in the fourth quarter. We wanted to win. We wanted the bragging rights, but we all were looking forward to this game.

Mike Carter

When I talk to friends about Western Kentucky University, I brag about how good they have been.

Ellen Miller

Let us know what earmarks, for example, your members of Congress are bragging about, tell us about them, and together we'll track down what they're really all about.

Sarah Steele

I was born in North Carolina but moved to a suburb just outside of Philadelphia when I was 5, so mostly grew up there. I decided I wanted to become an actor when I was 8 years old. I literally heard a friend on the playground bragging about how he was taking acting classes and thought, 'Oh! That's what I'm supposed to be doing!'

Brad Pitt

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

Ed Lee

I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

B. C. Forbes

Bragging often precedes begging.

Dizzy Dean

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Jim Johnstone

She used to brag to me that she had beachfront property. Now her property's in the Gulf,

Charles Caleb Colton

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Alan Moore

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

David Milne

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

Lucas Till

I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies.

Lisa Cholodenko

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Michael Specter

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Monica Lewinsky

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

Scott Long

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

Pete Nichols

We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.

Beverly Sills

Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

Bernard Goldberg

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

Emilie Mims

We're expecting a very exciting evening with our Governor here. It's not everyday that we have our Governor as our keynote speaker. We're very pleased and very interested in what he has to say.

Dean Koontz

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Ashley Judd

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

William Stafford

Silence on a hill where the path endedand then the forest belowmoving in one long whisperas evening touched the leaves.

Brian Primeaux

Mild restraint will go a long way with lace. No one has done a floor-length lace evening gown since the late '70s.

James Beattie

Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!

Charles Bukowski

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

Josh Boone

When you want to stop, and you don't think you can give any more, you think about that Pittsburgh jersey in here. Looking up at the scoreboard, seeing that you're down 10 at the end of the game. That gives you a little extra motivation.

Bob Benincasa

When you want something it makes it extra special when you come through.

Shane Sisco

When you see a kid like him, who is as good as he is, it's because of the extra work he puts in. He's willing to put in the extra hours on his own to work on his game.

Jay Wright

When we double-teamed them, they made the extra pass and hit the 3.

Folarin Campbell

Uh, something about going the extra mile and not worrying about traffic, I think.

Peter Beattie

The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.

Lindy Ruff

We made a lot of things happen real slow. We always took the extra second to shoot.

Mike Hargrove

We're giving Jamie an extra day of rest. And this way it winds up giving him two starts at home.

Larry Buchanan

We're looking at getting some extra life out of them in a productive way by providing them to students.

Gaylord Perry

Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out that He's wearing pinstripes.

Sathya Baba

When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has traveled only from himself to himself.

Kim Gordon

I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised.

Anne Donovan

Sheryl finds a way to help her team win a game, and it doesn't necessarily have to do with scoring.

Kathy Mattea

Love travels, the miles, upon the wings of angels. Love finds you, I swear it's true, and I will love you from here.

Frank Cacckello

She was reincarnated tonight. A player of her talent finds a way to play through the pain.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a winner. She's just a tough little kid and she finds a way to win.

Debbie Ball

She's got to be one of the most organized high school students. She finds a way to do everything.

Nikki Sixx

I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

Bela Karolyi

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

Bela Karolyi

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

Bela Karolyi

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

Kyle Shewfelt

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

Karla Souza

I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

Jamie Foxx

With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Elizabeth Taylor

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

Ashley Scott

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

David McCullough

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

David McCullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David Krumholtz

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al Ries

What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Christopher Walken

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.